The move is an obvious sign of disrespect towards McCain; to put it in perspective, President Obama had flags at half-mast for an entire week after Antonin Scalia died.

Veterans groups around the nation were quick to pick up on the insult, and the American Legion issued an unprecedented letter demanding that the White House follow the “long-established protocol” of honoring McCain with an official statement and lowering the flag back down.

It’s remarkable that the American Legion was forced to put out such a statement in an effort to shame the President into showing a basic modicum of decency for a dead man, and it’s yet another sign of just how low our president has sunk in his pathetic effort to get the last word in against his former rival.